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Howard Ricks had several close calls during the Battle of Iwo Jima. A friend was hit by artillery fire and Ricks...

Many years after the war, James Goodrich went back to Iwo Jima. The visit helped him a lot with his own feelings about...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in 5th Marine Division] had to be responsible for his 30 camera guys [...

[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...

George Colburn called for a stretcher. One of the ones who brought the stretcher got hit. They put his friend,...

Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Louis R. Lepore did not take part in the practice invasions at Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui, Hawaii] before going to...

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

During the war James Salerno did not like the Japanese and had nothing nice to say about them. The Japanese soldiers...

The 3rd Marine Division was loaded up and brought to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan on 22 February 1945...

Waldeman Czaban's first experience bringing in casualties was disturbing. He thought about how young the wounded...

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